Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Tuesday called for the federal government to legalize marijuana because a hodgepodge of state rules have created a “badly broken” policy.

Kennedy, D-Mass., wrote in a STAT op-ed states’ choices to legalize the drug, which remains prohibited at the federal level, have spurred an untenable system.

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